Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-25

Sol Vestal of Abingdon, killed twenty.
one rattlesnakes on White Top on Wednes-
day.
Mrs. Yount, mother of the widow of the
late Gov. John Letcher, died at Lexington
Saturday, aged eighty.seven.
Preparations have been made at Roanoke
gates to the democratic convention.
Rev r. Il. Fleming, of Washington, mas
accepted call to the passionate of the Sec
ord Presbyterian Church, Lynchburg.
Col. r. II. Dulany and H. n. Rector have
been elected delegates from Mercer district,
Loudoun county, to the State democratic
convention to be held at Roanoke.
Mrs. Don P .Halsey of Lynchburg. has been
, elected lady superintendent of the State
Normal school at Farmville. Mrs. Halsey is q
sister Of United States Senator John w.
Daniel.
The Frederick county democratic conyen-
ton instructed its delegates to the senator
ial convention to vote for Thomas w. Har-
rison as its candidate for State Senator from
that district.
10 Franklin county last Monday, Benz
Woody, colored, cut his wife's throat in a
field near his house. and then went to the
house and got his pistol and blew out his
brains.
Dir. E. B. Balm, prominent merchant
and highly respected citizen of Petersburg
died suddenly yesterday of heart disease
Mr. Balm was Yearly 80 years Of age, and
leaves family.
f. B. Hurt & Co., of Abingdon, have sold
their real estate in that place, to New
York improvement company for O,OOO
w. y. Ingham & Co. have also sold their
real estate at the same place for ST. 600.
The prospect for all the staple crops in
the counties of Prince George, Sussex, Surry,
and Nansemond, such as corn, peanuts, cot.
ton and tobacco, is moi only fine, but never
was better at any session.
Brigader General William Mckee Dunn
United States Army, retired, late judge
advocate general, died at his country resi-
dence, Maplewoods, Fairfax county, yester-
day morning at halfpast seven o'clock, in
the seventy-second year of his age.
Holmes r. Puryear, who is to be hanged
at Prince George Court House on the 18th
OF August next, for the murder of his wife,
says that he will make n statement from
tho galIows, in which he will proclaim 10
the world that he is an innocent man.
Another heavy rain storm, accompanied
with vivid lightning, passed over part of
Stafford county late Saturday evening,
doing much damage. A large barn on the
farm of Henry G.. Chesley, county treasurer,
containing all his crop of wheat and hay,
also a large lot of farming implements, was
struck by lightning and with the contents
destroyed a barn on the farm of Henry
w. Edwards, not far distant, was also struck
ard burned to the ground, involving a
heavy loss. Fifty barrels of corn and some
farming implements were destroyed.
Tom Hearns, colored boy, about four
teen years old, made murderous assault
upon young Russian Jew pedder named
Harris Robinson, in the mountain, near
Hickory Grove, Prince William county last
Thursday. Hearns had been following the
peddler for several miles, showing him the
paths through the mountain, and when in
lonely thicket stepped up behind him and
struck him on the back of the head with a
stone, knocking him senseess. The boy
was. however, frightened of before he
could succeed in either robbing or murder
ing his victim. Hearns Is n notorious GRIM
nal for one so young, having been arrested
several weeks ago for burglary. On Friday
night on his way to jail he made an unsuc-
cessEul effort to escape.